What is "excretory"

Usage examples of "excretory".

These vessels receive the blood and bring it into intimate contact with the tissues, which take from it the principal part of its oxygen and other elements, and give up to it carbonic acid and the other waste products resulting from the transformation of the tissues, which are transmitted through the veins to the heart, and thence by the arteries to the lungs and various excretory organs.

The latter are clusters of round follicles opening into a common excretory duct.

These glands consist of numerous follicles, grouped around an excretory duct, which unites with similar ducts coming from other lobules.

The elimination of carbonic acid through the lungs has already been described on page 66, and the excretory function of the skin on page 70.

Besides, cold upon the surface shuts up the pores of the skin, which are among the most active and important excretory ducts of the system.

They stimulate the vital processes to renewed activity, and arouse the excretory organs to remove matter which ought to be eliminated.

Like all others of this type, its action is insensible, producing gradual changes, arousing the excretory glands to remove morbid materials, and at the same time toning the secretory organs.

While the Favorite Prescription exerts a tonic influence upon the digestive and nutritive functions, the Golden Medical Discovery acts upon the excretory glands.

The system being unable to appropriate it, and powerless to cast in off through the excretory channels, deposits it in the lungs or other parts of the body.

They are indeed valuable agents in this disease, since they increase the action of all the excretory glands, and rapidly remove those matters, which, if retained, would poison the system.

From the careful detail of its various properties, there is abundant reason for its favorable action upon all of the excretory organs, which co-operate in the removal of morbid materials from the system.

Sometimes they follow from neglect of the skin, which is not kept clean and its excretory function encouraged by warm clothing.

Nutrition is imperfect and some of the excretory organs are not properly performing their functions, or, perhaps, some portion of the body is being too rapidly wasted.

The excretory work of these glands seems not to be so great as was formerly supposed, but they supplement in a practical way the work of the kidneys and, during diseases of these organs, show an increase in excretory function to a marked degree.

The excretory organs then remove from the body a quantity of material that is equal in weight to the materials absorbed by the organs of digestion and respiration.